Packaging equipment shipments up 19 percent in 2011
Domestic shipments of US packaging machinery increased 19 percent to $7.7 billion in 2011, while US packaging machinery consumption, including imports, jumped by 23 percent to $8.8 billion, according to PMMI’s 2012 Shipments Study. The data is based on statistics supplied by 187 PMMI members and estimated numbers from non-member shipments.
“2011 was a year of significant shipments growth for our industry powered mainly by the release of the pent-up demand from the past three years,” says Jorge Izquierdo, vice president of market development, PMMI.